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United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan's 2004 Harvard Commencement address
Read the 2004 Commencement address by United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan.
Helen Keller
Totally deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, world famous at seven for having learned to read, write, and communicate through the finger...
What Do Your Feelings Have to Do with Literature?
"How strange it is...that we are so often locked out of ourselves," writes Arnold Weinstein, Ph.D. '68, in A Scream Goes through the...
Immortal Hands
The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute possesses this plaster cast of two clasped hands, a woman's and a man's. The plaster bears...
Brevia
Vanishing VisasPost-9/11 delays in granting visas for foreign nationals intending to study in the United States have begun to inhibit the flow...
Duel for the Heart of Texas
Everything is bigger in the Lone Star State--including the political fights...
Learning more about long-term care
Resources for finding out more about long-term-care planning, options, cost, and insurance coverage...
Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty
Private viewing of To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty, highlights from the collection of Grenville L. Winthrop.
Harvard A to Z
(Excerpted from Harvard A to Z, by John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, published this May by Harvard University Press...
Meet the New Marshal
As a long-time Harvard administrator, Jacqueline A. O'Neill has attended so many Commencements that she can almost recite the script by heart...
Requiescat
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." April 22 was the centenary of the birth of J. Robert...
Good Work
Wendy Fischman, Ed ’99, Becca Solomon, Ed ’99, Deborah Greenspan, and Howard Gardner ’65, Ph.D. ’71, Making Good: How...